Earth Day Worksheet / Writing Prompts - PDF

Engage your students in meaningful learning about Earth Day with our comprehensive worksheet package. This resource includes a variety of activities to enhance students' understanding of environmental conservation, sustainability, and the importance of protecting our planet.

Key Features:

• Educational Content: The worksheets cover essential Earth Day concepts such as the meaning of Earth Day, ways to protect the environment, the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling, and awareness about endangered animals.
• Interactive Activities: Students can choose from a range of engaging activities, including creating a poster, writing a poem, making a pledge, or conducting a research project. These activities encourage creativity, critical thinking, and research skills development.
• Differentiated Learning: The worksheets are designed to accommodate varying learning styles and abilities. Students can select activities based on their interests and strengths, fostering a personalized learning experience.

File Format

• 1 PDF formatted to 8.5" x 11" letterhead sized sheets (5 pages)

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Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
English Language Arts Standards:

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.3: Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.4: With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.1: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.3: Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
  

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS):

• NGSS 3-ESS3-1: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth's mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes.
• NGSS 4-ESS3-1: Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.
• NGSS 5-ESS3-1: Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect Earth's resources and environment.